How Cameron is handling unexpected solo debut
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 14 March 2025
Aaron Cameron has been thrown into the deep end making an unexpected solo Supercars debut, but is loving it despite a broken toe.
Just three days before the start of the Melbourne SuperSprint, Blanchard Racing Team announced it was parting ways with Aaron Love and will be replaced with his co-driver.
At short notice Cameron has done a solid job, setting the 10th fastest time in practice 1.
In his first solo race, which was a wild affair, he got as high as 19th but ended up 22nd after a trip to the gravel.
Despite the disappointing moment, Cameron is simply enjoying living a dream and felt he had enough pace to belong.
“It was what we all dream about making it full time in the Supercars series,” he told Auto Action.
“There has been a lot of hard work to get here trying to find budgets and I am a lot older than most being 25 with Kai less than 20, so it is a special moment for myself, my family and supporters just to say I have done a Supercars round.
“I am so thankful to the CoolDrive and BRT guys for giving men a crack.
“It was cool to race guys like Cam Waters. I was disappointed to go in the gravel trap, but at the same time I don’t really mind because I am figuring things out as I go and there is so much to learn.”
Cameron admitted he got Turn 3 wrong which resulted in the #3 Mustang getting beached, but pinpointed qualifying as the biggest area of improvement from a frantic first day where there were no less than five Supercars sessions.
“Gravel trap was my fault. I was locked up and went too deep,” he said.
“The track is so dirty off line here. I did not go any deeper than what I did the lap before but got off line and did not do a good enough job of predicting where the limit was.
“Like people would expect, the qualifying pace is not quite there and firing it up for one lap is difficult at the moment.
“But once we were racing our pace was not too and I felt like I could fight people and did not feel out of place.
“It was very similar to Super2 with nut jobs everywhere and a lot going on.”
Cameron unfortunately did not enjoy the greatest preparation for the biggest round of his career.
The versatile racer who has taken part in no less than 11 different championships broke his right big toe, but that was never getting in the way of his dream.
“Last Thursday I was loading some stuff in the truck for a go-kart team and jammed it between the truck tail lift and truck bed,” he said.
“I am not proud of myself and it is really painful
“It is very uncomfortable and annoying walking around, but you forget about it when you are driving.
“Even come New Zealand I will still need to be a little bit careful, but it is what it is.”
Image: BRT
2025 Australian Grand Prix schedule
Race 1 (19 laps) 1: B. Feeney 2: W. Brown +1.0924 3: C. Hill +3.7603
8.50-9.35 Formula 3 Practice
10.00-10.45 Formula 2 Practice
12.30-13.30 Formula 1 Practice 1
14.00-14.30 Formula 3 Qualifying
14.50 Supercars Race 2 (19 laps)
16.00-17.00 Formula 1 Practice 2
17.30-16.00 Formula 2 Qualifying
18.25-19.00 Carrera Cup Race 2
9.05-9.15 Supercars Qualifying 3
9.25-9.35 Supercars Qualifying 4
11.15 Formula 3 Sprint Race (20 laps)
12.30-13.30 Formula 1 Practice 3
14.15 Formula 2 Sprint Race (23 laps)
16.00-17.00 Formula 1 Qualifying
17.40 Supercars Race 3 (19 laps)
18.45-19.20 Carrera Cup Race 3
9.00 Formula 3 Feature Race (23 laps)
10.25 Supercars Race 4 (14 laps)
11.30 Formula 2 Feature Race (33 laps)
15.00 Formula 1 Grand Prix (58 laps)
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